"God commanded Hosea to marry a loose woman. She had three children (but not by Hosea--see 1:2 & 2:4). The second, a daughter, was to be named, "lo ruhama" לֹא רֻחָ֑מָה "no mercy."
The Hebrew term for mercy is rahamim, רַחֲמִים which is from the root word, rehem, רֶ֫חֶם which is the term for "womb."
The emotion of love, the "sensation of love," and mercy itself stem from the Hebrew term, "womb." The womb is a place of mercy.
How damning it is that there is a vast number of "lo ruhama" today. These are those who are denied mercy in the "rehem" (the womb), the first place of mercy.
In the place where mercy is defined, mercy is denied to millions of unborn children."
- Scott Jacobsen
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